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Most people don’t know where to begin when buying or selling a business. At Murphy Business Sales, we guide clients through the complicated process so that they get to the closing table successfully. Jennifer Smith Broeckling has a bachelor's degree in finance and an MBA from Southeast Missouri State University, along with two graduate degrees in banking from Vanderbilt and LSU. She is also a Board Certified Intermediary (BCI) and a Certified Merger & Acquisition Intermediary (CMAI). Jennifer lives in Cape Girardeau and is married to John Broeckling. They have three kids (Madeline, Ben, and Emma) and one strange little dog. To learn more about business valuations and how Murphy Business Sales helps buyers and sellers with mergers and acquisitions, visit murphybusinessofcape.com. Jennifer can be reached at j.broeckling@murphybusiness.com or at 573.335.1885.
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Can You Believe It?
Posted Thursday, February 13, 2014, at 1:43 PM
LinkedIn is a popular social networking site for business professionals, so you might assume that it is trustworthy. I recently discovered otherwise. A colleague recently approached me at a Chamber function to thank me for endorsing him on LinkedIn. His gratitude caught me off guard...I had not endorsed him for that particular skill. Later, I began noticing that others had been endorsing me on LinkedIn - people who have no basis for knowing whether I actually have that particular skill. At first, I thought that maybe they'd been clicking the "endorse" button without giving their action much thought. Then I saw that I had been endorsed for skills I'd never claimed to possess by people who hadn't actually made any endorsements of anyone on LinkedIn. This all felt a bit odd.
As it turns out, it's not just me. The community forum on LinkedIn is filled with people upset over these bogus endorsements. So what harm is there? Loads of it. For starters, people who view your LinkedIn profile can't tell whether an endorsed skill was posted by you or fabricated by a computer program. You could be unknowingly misrepresenting yourself online.
The forum link below provides some good information about how to hide and remove fake endorsements. The bottom line is this: Don't believe everything you see on LinkedIn and, just like any other online presence, you must manage and continually monitor your own profile.
https://community.linkedin.com/questions/10623/fake-endorsements.html
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